Money, money, override pays, LTD gains, DH gains (upgrade list will be big plus more access to seat map), Standups, trip mix protections, Increase pay for reassignments, more premium pay scales. Cant think of any more of top of my head. Trip trading was a big miss but wasnt even being asked, although the "heat map" should help some. Electro notification a big wildcard. At the end of the day, its all a gamble and if some felt it was worth the risk to continue to seek more. Some felt it was, others not.
The money was going to be there if it passed or not.
I agree with LTD.
The DH gains are there, but trail our peers. Typically when I'm assigned a DH it's at the last minute on a reassignment or reserve sequence and business class or premium economy seats are gone. I won't disagree that if it's an improvement over what we had. Interestingly enough we used to have access to the seat map and the company took it away.
I absolutely despise standups, especially getting them on reserve. I think you'll see many of them in open time. I flew them in a past life and I'd say about 50% of the people I flew with were on reserve. Personally I think they're worse than redeyes, but one man's trash is another man's treasure.
I was reassigned yesterday and under the new contract the reassignment pays exactly 5 minutes more than what it would have under the old contract. And I missed dinner with my cousin and his fiancee in San Antonio last night. I do think the company will try harder to get pilots back on their sequences to avoid paying 150% and 200%. On the employee bus I spoke with a crew that was RA. A delay caused them to miss their last DH which was the last flight of the day. Since the delay is considered a MIC it was coded as RO, which isn't subject to 200% pay. They called tracking and spoke with a supervisor and they wouldn't budge. Didn't take the company long to figure that out. I also don't believe 200% RA pay has been implemented but need to check. Either way they didn't get 150% for the RO that was caused by a RA.
We already have variable PM. It's at the company's option. I'm in the largest bid status at the airline and since the Green July debacle we've had exactly zero 200% sequences. Zero. The new variable PM is also a company option. A huge miss. It should be tied to TTS and reserve coverage. If pilots can't trade or drop their sequences we should start moving up the PM scale. But like you said that wasn't negotiated.
I agree on the electronic notification. The chest thumpers in the Facebook forums are up in arms over this. It was coming like it or not because it was in the JCBA. But basically we voted on a contract that has notes on what the system will look like and how it will function. Yikes!
There are other gains like increased training pay, more holidays subject to holiday pay and now it's not just time flown, and a few others.
As you know we had so many lagging areas in our contract we simply had too much ground to improve. Interestingly enough we flew through EWR the other day and I went into the terminal to get a coffee. Every single United pilot I saw had on a contract now lanyard and tag on their bag or suitcase. Walking through our hubs I saw It's Time, American Airlines, APA, and AA Pilots for ALPA lanyards. Or no lanyard at all. Just my somewhat related observation.
